Category: 2018 Elections

AntonioGuillem/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s the time of year when families mingle, for all that entails, so we reached out to readers to ask how political differences among relatives have affected their holidays. Specifically, we asked whether anyone had kept quiet about their midterm votes in order to…

Margaret Butler sets up voting booths ahead of Election Day at the First United Methodist Church on August 27, 2018. Octavio Jones/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November, more than 64 percent of Florida voters chose to amend the state constitution to restore voting rights to ex-felons…

Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this year, a mere five months after the #MeToo reckoning first began, a local Tennessee television station dropped what should have been a bombshell investigation: Three women were accusing state Rep. David Byrd of sexually assaulting them when they were minors in the 1980s, using his…

John Bazemore/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Georgia’s Gov.-elect Brian Kemp survived a bruising race against Stacey Abrams in November, narrowly avoiding becoming the first Republican to lose a statewide election in more than a decade. But it turns out he won after throwing a big sucker punch, according to…

Voters in Hollywood, Florida, line up to vote on Election Day 2018. Susan Stocker/Sun Sentinel/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A month after Florida voters approved a measure to restore the franchise to about 1.4 million former felons—the largest expansion of voting rights in decades—a battle over implementing that change…

David Byrne performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April.Amy Harris/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the late-1970s, when David Byrne formed the iconic (and alas, now-defunct) Talking Heads, his career has been an endless stream of fascinating side projects, starting with his super-weird, super-cool Brian…